protagonize: interactive fiction & collaborative story writing community
Get more out of Protagonize! Login or sign up as member.
Show Previous branch Teaser
...y on a raft, threatened by a horror that had already devoured his friends. You were nine, and the story scared a living daylight out of you. That whole summer you wouldn’t go anywhere near the water, took you two more to gather the courage to come near a raft again. Everyone teased you about that, including your little sister (not that your parents noticed, too busy with their careers and parties and golf). That’s retarded, you think, I was just a kid. It was a stupid story, but a tiny little voice somewhere inside of your head persists "but it ate them, it ATE them, and he was left alone with water all around him just like you now and then it got dark" and you yell "IT WAS JUST A STORY!!!" into the darkness just to make the voice stop.

You sit up, pull your knees up and hug your legs; lean your head down and whisper, "I’m a grown man now. I’m a grown man" and that is when a mighty blow from below rocks the raft.

Hollering in surprise you fall back in the water, arms and legs flailing

Uh oh. No one's written this branch yet. :o

Have questions about writing a new story, branch or chapter? Check out the posting rules to the right for an idea of what you should and shouldn't do.

Feeling brave? Login and post a new story below!

POST A COMMENT

Wanna say something? Make yourself heard!
We reserve the right to delete spam, flames, or other nasty stuff.

Please login or register to post a comment.

2 COMMENTS ABOUT THIS STORY RSS

POSTING GUIDELINES

STORY TAGS

STORY POPULARITY

4 PARTICIPANTS IN THIS STORY

RELATED STORIES RSS

Atlantis

4 branches | 1 | 1

Essence of Evil

EMPIRE OF KROZ (I)

1 branch | 2 | 1

Sahrai

Prologue - Beginnings

THE GOODS

Start writing now! Register for a free Protagonize account

STORY CATEGORIES

Support This Site

SPREAD THE WORD!